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"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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